E-Cigarette
The electronic cigarette has become the new trend in the smoking of the cigarette. It gives a feeling of smoking cigarette among the people who use it. It entails vaporizing the e-liquid to produce the vapors that are inhaled to provide the feeling of the smoking. The liquid used can be designed to contain the desired ingredient such as nicotine, flavors, and many others. However, the regulation of the liquid used can offer a good aspect in the regulating the number of the ingredient used. It has been a matter of debate from various countries concerning the usage of the E-Cigarette. Some nation has the contrary opinion when it comes to the use of the E-cigarette. This paper is tailored towards urging that the use of E-cigarette will to the smoking habit.
In my opinion, the E-cigarette will little help the grave issue surrounding cigarette smoking. This is attributive to:
The content in the E-cigarette is as well health impairing just like those found in the cigarette. The e-liquid used contains various chemicals including nicotine. It is obvious that nicotine does impose people to health problems. In the body, once nicotine is obtained from the vapor, there is an increased addiction towards nicotine just as the individuals who smoke the cigarette. Nicotine component is addictive and therefore even when used in the E-Cigarette, it still causes addiction. Owing to this, the E-cigarette, as well as smoking cigarette, is bad. Furthermore, apart from habit, nicotine also increased heart disease. It causes the increase in the level of adrenaline in the body, heart arrhythmias, incidences of heart attacks and sudden death. Nicotine predisposes one to atherosclerosis, the increased vascular resistance. The effects seen in the people using nicotine E-cigarette are just the same as those who smoke the cigarette. Therefore, the cigarette aerosols are similarly lethal to health as the practice of smoking.
The E-liquid also may contain the heavy metals that once taken into the body it becomes problematic in the health state o the person.
The E-liquid are designed differently with various concentration of nicotine, and even some of the E-cigarettes do not contain nicotine. The regulation of E-cigarette to be used is another challenge faced by the governing bodies. Many of the parties that produce the E-cigarettes face competition from other which does not keep into consideration the motive of limiting nicotine in the E-cigarette. As a result, there is a rise in the E-cigarette which has the high level of nicotine just as in smoking cigarettes. The problem, therefore, lies at the point of regulation. The approach used of making sure that the E-cigarette will be nicotine free is challenging. To prove this, the smoking cigarettes have not been facing a big challenge when it comes to regulation g the nicotine present. Similarly, it will be a challenge of managing and regulation E-cigarette to have less or no nicotine. The approach of regulating cigarette would be better if it starts with the regulation of the smoking cigarettes.
E- Cigarette liquid can as well be manipulated by the users. It has been evident that the other components such as cannabis can be added to enhance the effects. Similarly, this technology has been used to abuse other drugs. They may be combined with the cigarette as this gives a greater endanger to the body health system. E-Cigarette should aim at reducing the people who get affected with the smoking, but at this point tries to explain, it is evident that the consumers may easily add more drugs to abuse along with the nicotine.
It is very unwise to advertise consumption of the E-cigarette which according to many people claims that the health status is unknown. Upon inquiry of the health impact of the E-cigarette, many are confident that it is not well known. However, one thing is for sure; some of the E-cigarette contains tobacco which is a health hazard. Similarly, the method of taking the E-cigarette predisposes an individual to other infection especially respiratory-related infections. Despite being claimed by many people as being health unknown, E-cigarette is for sure health impactful. It is a blindfold that people are using so that they can be in the position to abuse the drugs
The e-cigarette is packaged in such a way that it attracts young children towards using it. It appears so nice and classy to use E-cigarette. It is considered as a modern way of smoking, and this has been a tempting offer to many children. Availability of the E-cigarette is not difficult to even the children. According to the statistics in Austria, the number of children who are currently using E-cigarette is increasing. Peer pressure is also a drive that makes even more of the children to oblige towards using E-cigarette. The middle age and high school individuals are found to be the victims of this emerging problem. Coupled with the concept that the health status of the E-cigarette is unknown, more and more children are triggered to start using E-cigarette. Peer pressure similarly has posed strain to those who do not use E-cigarette as they are left out by their friends who do use E-cigarettes. The role models the children are also associated with using the E-cigarettes, and therefore they find it no crime to do so as well. It is a significant concern to see young children with bright future being succumbed to the habit of using E-cigarette. At their age, they should be concerned and involved in activities such as education and sports, but in most cases, they have replaced some of their time to do constructive activities with inhaling E-liquid. The sole purpose of the E-cigarette was not to affect young children and draw them into being habitual users. This calls for proper regulating of the E-cigarettes.
The e-cigarette is had not yet been associated with quitting smoking as intended. The consumption of the E-cigarette has just created a platform for abusing drugs just different from smoking cigarette. Those who shift to E-cigarette end up being chronic users just as those smoking cigarette. As seen earlier, e-liquid may contain nicotine which induces addiction. Despite this, the flavors that are added to the E-cigarette are found to be attractive to the users which make them stick to using E-cigarettes.
E-Cigarette induces people towards smoking tobacco. It serves as genesis to introduce people towards smoking because they are readily available and are claimed to be safe. Once an individual starts using it, there is an increased chance that one will begin using nicotine-containing E-cigarette. E-Cigarette attracts people even those who have not been smoking to begin vaporizing e liquids. Peer pressure and desire o exploit may arise which prompt use of the more nicotinic E-cigarette. Therefore, instead of the E-cigarette helping people quite from the smoking, new individuals are now using tobacco in them which is so unfortunate.
E-cigarette similarly to smoking cigarette is associated with passive smoking. This shows that whenever ones vaporize using E-cigarette, other surrounding people are as well affected. Smoking cigarettes do the same. This has been a challenge over time to help curb passive smokers because it poses health risks to them as well. The solution, however, is not found in the E-cigarette. Therefore since people who walk around with E-cigarette affects the others who desire not to use tobacco, it should be regulated, and appropriate measures are laid down.
On the contrary, the E-cigarette proves to offer positivity as far as smoking eradication is concerned
E-cigarettes provide a choice of one to choose by availing various forms of the concentration of the drug to exploit. For those who wish to stop smoking can turn to start using the E-cigarette with little or no nicotine at all. With time, the desire and addiction is withered, and they manage entirely from chronic smoking to non-smokers
E-Cigarette helps those who are having the difficult time with quitting smoking to adjust slowly. In rehabilitation centers, the chronic smokers are rained and introduced on the ways to make them go about management of the chronic smoking. In this case, they are exposed to the declining concentration of nicotine over time until they start smoking nicotine free liquid. Since nicotine is withdrawn slowly, the addiction is gradually managed in the convenient way possible appropriate for the patient. The loss of addiction and craving for using cigarette then drives towards a healthy lifestyle.
The slow change in the concentration of nicotine used help manage withdrawal syndrome. Withdrawal syndrome is a painful scenario that one faces when denied the chance to use the drug that is addicted. Withdrawal syndrome affects many drug addicts and therefore the behavioral pattern tailored towards the management of addiction calls for slow decelerating vaporizing of reducing the amount of nicotine in the cigarette. This is offered by the E-cigarette leading to gradual withdrawal from the drug.
When coupled with effective implementation of the required levels of nicotine used in the e-cigarette, the effectiveness towards moving away from smoking cigarette is possible. Strict enforcement of the policies demands that all the E-liquid used is safe for the smokers. They have little, or no high levels of nicotine and neither do they contain any other health hazard component. The regulation serves to protect people from becoming addictives on the nicotine at any given time.
Conclusion
E-cigarette poses the great danger to the society. It is associated with passive smoking, causes health problems, induces usage of tobacco among naïve individuals and children as well as there is no defined evidence that it helps to quit smoking among the chronic users. Despite its positivity, regulation should be made and be coupled with sufficient implementation strategies to regulate E-cigarettes.
References
Etter, J., & Bullen, C. (2011). Electronic cigarette: users profile, utilization, satisfaction and perceived efficacy. Addiction, 106(11), 2017-2028. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03505.x
Parikh, A., & Bhattacharyya, N. (2018). Patterns of concurrent cigarette, alcohol, and e-cigarette use: Off-setting or additive behaviors?. The Laryngoscope. doi: 10.1002/lary.27133